Ernesiders suffering same old slaughter

THE exit signs at Breffni Park in Cavan are of exactly the same colour as the jerseys which the Ernesiders wore afield for their sun-drenched encounter with Monaghan in the Ulster championship.

That was apt because Monaghan began putting them under the sword almost from the throw-in yesterday and had their dreams slashed to pieces by half-time.

This was a slaughter; the death of a thousand cuts. I’ve seen this kind of demolition annually for more than five decades now and it does not get any easier to view. Yesterday was hard, maybe as hard as it gets.